Think Instead of the Box

Dan Zollman is a designer and a writer. He builds websites and studies product design at RPI, focusing on user experience and usability.

My Work

Recent Web Projects

Philadelphia FIRST – A redesigned website for the Philadelphia region of the FIRST robotics programs.

RPI Portal – Links to all of RPI's online resources, on one page and organized for better findability. Currently undergoing a redesign with even better information architecture.

Thinking "Instead" of the Box

I led an interest session on creative problem-solving and divergent thinking at the Technology Student Association's national conference on June 29. For further reading and other resources on this topic, see this page.

Latest Updates

Jun 21 2010

The Ten-Year Promise

With the establishment of this website, I'm making a resolution to preserve all page URLs at least until 2020.

Jun 16 2010

Introducing Instead of the Box

After months of designing and writing code, Instead of the Box is launching. The site, driven by a from-scratch, flexible PHP backend, will be the home of my portfolio, my blog on design and design theory, and other projects.